Disable or rebuild all nonclustered indexes on a table
Can be useful when inserting a lot of data into a table.
2019-02-26 (first published: 2019-02-14)
5,397 reads
Scripts
Files with larger disk consumption
This script features as we can through the CTE Top10FilesWithLargerDiskConsumption the top ten data files that are showing greater consumption of hard drive related data-reading activities.
2019-01-15 (first published: 2019-01-08)
1,099 reads
Alert DBA - High SQL Server CPU Usage
Collect CPU % for a time period and alert if Average CPU usage is high
2019-01-14 (first published: 2019-01-08)
1,799 reads
Quick SQL connection and process details with current SQL - Version2
Quick check SQL connection and process details with current SQL text
2018-12-06 (first published: 2018-11-27)
1,000 reads
2018-11-30 (first published: 2017-04-01)
1,153 reads
2018-11-29 (first published: 2018-11-23)
477 reads
2018-11-15 (first published: 2018-11-08)
1,614 reads
Automatically Failover (Enable or Disable) Jobs Based on HADR Role
If you have a SQL Server with a High Availability solution (AlwaysOn Availability Groups, Database Mirroring, etc.), and you also have a bunch of jobs which you need to be run on the Primary server only. You need to be able to "failover" the jobs in case the Primary server is no longer Primary.
2018-11-14 (first published: 2018-11-12)
6,164 reads
String Replace in Stored Procedures with Powershell
Find a string in a stored procedure and replace with powershell
2018-11-13 (first published: 2018-11-06)
1,277 reads
Disk Space Check
I was using this script to check disk space on individual servers for quite some time. And now since I started to use registered servers for MS SQL, I thought of a little modification to the script.
2018-11-09 (first published: 2018-10-24)
1,183 reads
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The Empty Aggregate
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Question of the Day
The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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